Imagining India in Discourse Meaning, Power, Structure /

• Main Author: Dutta, Mohan Jyoti (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, 14
• Subjects: Environment.; Cultural heritage.; Economic geography.; Literacy.; Sustainable development.; Development economics.; Sustainable Development.; Economic Geography.; Development Economics.; Cultural Heritage.

The economic liberalization of India, changes in global structures, and the rapid emergence of India on the global landscape have been accompanied by the dramatic rise in popular, public, and elite discourses that offer the promise to imagine India. Written mostly in the future tense, these discours...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Imagining India in Discourse
• 2.Discourses of Liberalization:Framing economics
• 3.Innovation, Technology, and Development
• 4.Food, Health, Shelter, and Nutrition: Public Provisions and Private Industry
• 5.State, Bureaucracy, and Politics: Contradictions in Interpretation
• 6.Culture and Communication: Old and New.-7.The Poor, the Rural and the Margins
• 8.Epilogue.